The Soft Berth

   
          Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, ruthless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.

Budd Schulberg
Harder they Fall
1947

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Dirty Pretty Things

 Dirty Pretty Things
Stephen Frears
2002

Killers Kiss

      Like the man said, can happiness buy money ?

Killers Kiss
Stanley Kubrick
1955

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Killers Kiss

Not a Home

 A House is Not a Home
(Bacharach/David)
Kurt Elling

Life in the Shadows #65

A Double Life

Angel Heart

Double Indemnity

Vertigo

Narrow Margin

Blade Runner

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

The Conformist

Third Man

Talented Mr Ripley

Woman in Hiding

Chinatown

Reckless Moment

Reservoir Dogs

Sunset Boulevard

True Detective

Le Trou

Nightmare Alley

Out of the Past

In the End

       But in the end, man needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

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Simone Guglielmini

Children in the Shadows #2

A Walk Among the Tombstones

The Window

Gloria

Gun Crazy

This Man Must Die

Fallen Idol

True Detective

Naked Kiss

Panic Room

Oliver Twist (1948)

Sopranos

Night of the Hunter

Taxi Driver

Mildred Pierce

Once Upon a Time in America

The Silence (1963)

All the Devils

        My New Year's Eve toast ; to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which i do battle - may they never give me peace.

Patricia Highsmith
New Years Eve 1947

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Highsmith
Photographer unknown

Downpour of Shadows #34

Sopranos

In Cold Blood

End of the Affair

Rififi

Postman Always Rings Twice

La Bete Humaine

Deep Cover

Out of the Past

Last Wave

Big Sleep

After Hours

La Notte

Last Seduction

The Housemaid (1960)

Identity (2003)

Dragonwyck

In the Electric Mist